Last year, Facebook changed the social networking game by unveiling its Facebook Platform, which allowed programmers to build fun applications such as Slide and SuperPoke that occupy the time of Facebook's more than 90 million users. At this year's F8 Conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the next step with Facebook Connect, a service that lets users move their Facebook data to third-party Web sites. The following images capture the essence of the event at the San Francisco Design Center on July 23.
As Apple's iPhone continues to evolve with the new 3G version, many consumers and business users are looking for Web applications that will help them more efficiently complete tasks. There are more than 2,000 Web apps for the iPhone, so to help you whittle through some of them here is eWEEK's list of 10 of the most useful applications.
Centralized configuration tools have been one of the largest roadblocks to iPhone adoption in the enterprise, but Apple's betting that its newly released iPhone Configuration Web Utility will ably fill this gap.
Virtualization can certainly be a boon for enterprises, but not without the right organizational and technical approach to security. Here are some basic steps you can take to proactively secure your virtual-server environment, culled from analysts and security pros.
Now that Microsoft's Hyper-V has been released to manufacturing and will be ready for distribution via Microsoft Update starting July 8, the race to turn the hypervisor into a commodity has begun in earnest. eWEEK Labs will publish a full review of Hyper-V in the near future. Until then, here's a first look.
The Spencer F. Katt cartoon became a weekly feature in PC WEEK (now eWEEK) in September 1994. Bill Gates quickly became a natural satirical target. Here's just a small sampling of Gates' appearances. Thanks, Bill. It's been a fun ride.
eWEEK Labs picks the 10 best and 10 worst Microsoft products (so far).
Although all of the data storage markets (disk, tape, online, personal, business, and so on) continue to grow at astounding rates, none is growing as quickly as the very specialized video storage sector, where heavy digital lifting abounds. Companies such as Isilon, BlueArc, Spinnaker/NetApp, IBRIX, Hewlett-Packard, Sun StorageTek, Thomson/Grass Valley, ProMax Systems, G-Tech, Pinnacle and MedeaVideo use either Linux clusters or their own homemade operating systems to move huge amounts of raw digital film data from the artist to the producer--and often several times back and forth until the scene is completed. Here are 10 of the most amazing numbers involving this busy sector.
Salesforce.com's community application allows companies to more effectively tap into the mind share of customers and staff.
Oracle's latest CRM platform provides keen insight into data.
The Enterprise 2.0 show, held in Boston in June, featured a number of interesting presentations, including talks from FedEx technologists, CIA agents and a Google product manager. These experts also gathered for a panel on the state of enterprise 2.0 today. Join us on this tour through the conference, which hosted more than 1,200 attendees.
The Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston June 9 to 12 served as both a launching pad for new products and a showcase for technologies that haven't gotten a lot of attention yet. eWEEK surveyed the demonstration pavilion and found a number of cool technologies that could help businesses share and manage information among employees, partners and customers. Take the tour and enjoy the screenshots as you plot your course through the world of blogs, wikis and RSS feeds.
When considering alternatives to Microsoft's Office productivity suite, one of the most important issues to evaluate is how well Office rivals can handle Microsoft's ubiquitous binary file formats. eWEEK Labs used Adobe Acrobat 9's Compare Documents feature to help measure OpenOffice.org's handling of Microsoft Office formats.
Mr. C hears from an anonymous IT guy in the trenches who tells it like it is
Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization option for Windows Server 2008, has taken another step toward final release. Released for download by Microsoft on May 20, Release Candidate 1 adds support for Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 and Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for both x86 and x64. Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be available in a future update, according to the release notes for the LIC (Linux Integration Components) add-on software. During tests of RC1, I bolted on LIC and installed SUSE, along with Windows Server 2000 SP4, to get a look at the new capabilities.
Employees can pose security threats to your enterprise IT infrastructure through mobile devices such as smart phones and laptops, as well as the various networks and applications with which their unsecured devices are liable to interact. Enterprise IT administrators, network administrators, and enterprise security workers and consultants should be aware of these security risks.
You’ve heard the stories about a stolen or lost laptop putting the personal data of hundreds or even thousands of people at risk. You know that mobile systems are a breeding ground for worms and viruses. You know you should take precautions so that bad luck or carelessness doesn’t put the identity of others in the wrong hands—and your company’s good name in the mud. But where to start? Here are 10 reasons why your company’s laptops are at risk, and 10 ways to close the gaps.
Succeeding at the art of telecommuting requires extra vigilance on the part of remote employees--making it abundantly clear that you're not only in the loop, but you'd like to stay in it. Here are some suggestions for making your presence felt in the office, no matter where you happen to be working.
IT security, mobile security, NAC or network access control, all continue to be major issues, despite predictions to the contrary. Security vendors and analysts have been accused of stoking fears with their predictions of future threats because not all of them have been borne out, but NAC, mobile security and IT security in general continue to raise concerns. Hindsight, however, is 20/20, so we at eWEEK are taking a look at some popular security predictions from the past few years that have not panned out.
On May 21, eWEEK was on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Google’s newest data center, a sprawling complex situated on 225 acres of rolling peaks and valleys in Lenoir, N.C., part of Caldwell County. The data center cost $600 million to build, and Google employs hundreds of state natives to run it. Lenoir and Caldwell County officials are hoping the data center will boost the county's economy, which suffered when 250,000 furniture factory workers lost their jobs from 2000 to 2002. (No, Google reps didn't let anyone inside, although eWEEK tried.)
The New Mexico state bird is the roadrunner, which helps explain the name that IBM bestowed upon the supercomputer it plans to install at New Mexico-based Los Alamos National Laboratory in August. The name is also an allusion to the roadrunner's speed: IBM engineers say they believe that the high-performance supercomputer will become the first to break the petaflop mark—1 quadrillion calculations per second—when the Top 500 Supercomputer Sites list is updated in June. eWEEK took a look at Roadrunner in IBM's Poughkeepsie, N.Y., facility.
Google just wrapped its Android Developer Challenge, with judges awarding $25,000 for each of the 50 best applications created. No one can be sure whether these apps will catch fire and gain traction when Android handsets hit the market later in 2008, but here is a sample of what to expect.
Microsoft's decision to step away from its attempt to acquire Yahoo won't be the end of the saga. Here are some lessons learned and some speculation about the future.
Ruckus Wireless' ZoneFlex Smart WLAN is well worth a look for small businesses considering a move to a controller-based architecture.
It could have been the deal of the century. It could have given Microsoft the online search and ad chops it doesn't have, not to mention firmer footing in the cloud. But it was not to be (at least not yet), as Microsoft withdrew its offer for Yahoo amid much waiting, threatening and gnashing of teeth all around. Here is how the dance to the denouement played out.
The Web 2.0 Expo is traditionally a breeding ground for new technology demonstrations and this year's event in San Francisco was no exception. Here are six of the more memorable technologies, most of which are social and collaborative in nature, demonstrated on the Moscone West show floor April 23 through April 25. You'll notice half of them are online collaboration tools that would look great as part of larger feature sets at Cisco Systems, IBM or Microsoft, which begs the question: Which will remain independent one year from now?
The Computer and Communications Industry Association grades the presidential candidates on voting records—are they friend or foe of Silicon Valley?
AMD reported its sixth straight quarterly loss April 17 and continued 2008 on a sour note, but management promises the company will turn things around—both financially and technologically—by the second half of the year. eWEEK's Scott Ferguson examined the chip maker recently and found 10 major ailments the company needs to cure immediately if it is to fulfill management's promise.
If others follow in IBM's footsteps with storage acquisitions, these are the companies that could be on the list.
eWEEK's Ryan Naraine puts together a list of 10 free must-have consumer security utilities to help keep hackers at bay.
Here's a look at the technologies Gartner analysts voted most likely to succeed—at changing the face of business.
Facebook is a wildly popular social network, with more than 68 million users and counting. But is Facebook chewing up too much of corporate employees' time? Are employees risking their companies' intellectual property by using Facebook? During a debate at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 on April 7, Gartner analyst Nikos Drakos argued that Facebook should be banned, while Gartner's Ray Valdes defended the social network.
In early April, CEO Michael Dell offered a blueprint of how his
company plans to pull itself out of its current situation and return to
the profitability and innovation of years past. To achieve this, the
company is moving away from older markets and entering new ones. eWEEK
took a look at what is working for the Round Rock, Texas, company
and what is not.
Editors from eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline put their heads together to name the 100 people who are having the most influence on IT—the people who are shaping the future of the way we use technology. Read on for a look at Nos. 1-25 on the list.
One of the best parts of CTIA’s trade show is seeing what’s new in wireless technology. New gadgets are all over the show, of course, but there’s usually a press event or two where the companies get to strut their stuff. These events are closed to the public, so we get to see some cool things long before they show up in stores or even press releases. Most of the photos here came from PepCom’s Mobile Focus, although we did visit Motorola before the event to beat the crowds.
LAS VEGAS—The kickoff keynote speakers at the CTIA show held here ranged from the routine to the visionary. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced that he was thrilled with the recent results of the 700MHz auction. Microsoft and Sprint announced new products and Sir Richard Branson announced his plans to colonize Mars. One way or another, all in a day's work at CTIA.
The March 25 announcement that Yahoo was joining forces with Google and MySpace to forge the OpenSocial Foundation was hardly a surprise, given Yahoo's tendency toward open standards. OpenSocial includes APIs that let developers write applications that will work on any social site that supports the effort. Facebook has already declined to participate, and Microsoft seems to be in a holding pattern on the OpenSocial spec. What exactly does this mean? Would a Microsoft purchase of Yahoo complicate matters for the OpenSocial Foundation? Could Google and Microsoft get along together in OpenSocial? eWEEK offers a hypothetical scenario of how the social Web could play out in a chess game between rivals Google and Microsoft during the next few years.
Some technology advancements are indeed hard to fathom, but don't believe everything you see on April 1.
Lenovo's leading-edge ThinkPad X300 packs power savings into a petite but pricey three-pound chassis.
The influence of the open-source model on software development is increasing. Here, eWEEK names 15 people driving this IT revolution.
In the interest of making the sale, vendors sometimes do things that only hurt them—or the customer—in the end.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” applies to IT as well as to life in general. That said, there are many products in the enterprise that are starting to show their age. And, if they aren’t now, they will be with technologies such as IPv6 and unified communications coming down the pike, not to mention rising energy costs. Here’s a list of products that deserve a hard once-over.
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by building a green PC!
The Fabulous Feline's continuing adventures. Kattoons from 2008 to the present.
Just how do you protect your database? Here are eight tips to
consider when you are looking to lock down the structured data in your
enterprise.
With the advent of CRM (customer relationship management) as a
development platform—think solutions from Salesforce.com, Microsoft
and SugarCRM—customers and partners have begun to develop some
interesting applications, moving way beyond the confines of sales,
support and marketing. Here are some prime examples.
The job of developing a database is not easy, which is why more
people don't/can't do it. That said, even the experts make mistakes in
the process. After soliciting input from analysts and some
professionals in the field, eWEEK has compiled a list of some of the
more common database design mistakes and a few general tips for
avoiding them.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has made it perfectly clear he doesn't like
the idea that Microsoft will buy Yahoo. That’s no surprise, since Yahoo
happens to rank No. 1 in online display advertising and No. 2 in
top-line search, according to comScore. So, Google: Do something about
it! What better way to answer the biggest threat to your Web presence
than by buying Apple, a union that could prove not only to be a slam
dunk among consumers but would also provide a killer device and app
combination on which mobile advertising could be situated? Not so fast,
though: There are a handful of land mines to watch out for.
Code Green’s CI-750 is a basic DLP (data loss prevention) appliance
for organizations that want to ease a branch office or small workgroup
(of as many as 250 networked users) into DLP. The CI-750’s big brother,
the CI-1500, supports as many as 25,000 users, but it’s hard to imagine
handling reports and policy notifications for that large a group
considering the sluggish Web interface provided with both products.
eWEEK Labs took Version 5 of the CI-750 for a test run. Here’s what we
saw.
IBM on March 10 pledged to spend $1 billion on UCC (unified communications and collaboration) technologies, which to this point for Big Blue includes splicing corporate instant messaging software with VOIP (voice over IP) software to get Lotus Sametime. The investment will be in technology, products and services to help IBM fortify its position in the market versus Microsoft, Cisco, Nortel and others. eWEEK attended a small press briefing in Somers, N.Y., and found the following.
By Clint Boulton
In a survey conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Editorial Research for eWEEK, respondents indicated that they have been underwhelmed by Microsoft Windows Vista. And, it seems the future of Windows is ... XP?
By Debra Donston
The Irish may be known for many things, but one of the things they don’t get enough credit for is their acumen in IT. But it turns out that Ireland has a number of indigenous companies that leverage the country's growing base of network specialists and application developers focused on specific vertical markets, such as financial software or e-learning systems. Following are 20 Irish technology companies you should know.
By Mike Vizard
The Ides of March—March 15—has signified impending doom ever since a blind seer warned Julius Caesar to watch his back on that fateful day. (And you know what happened to Julius Ceasar. Et tu?) eWEEK reporters and editors recently played seer themselves, and here name the companies that seem headed for their own doomsday.
Microsoft Research used its TechFest event at the Redmond campus on March 4 to show off just a few of the hundreds of projects currently under development in its labs around the world. These projects include new technologies for search, interaction, collaboration and social networking.
eWEEK provides an evaluation shortlist of virtual world platforms. For more on doing business in the virtual world, click here.
By Dave Greenfield
As at any major trade show, much of the business that happened at CeBIT took place at social events rather than on the show floor. As it happens, CeBIT is a very social place, and eWEEK was on scene.
By Wayne Rash
You can always depend on the world's largest computer and
electronics show to deliver on the products you want. Unfortunately,
these products sometimes never see the United States, but they're still
cool, and most of them eventually make it. (For more on these cool products, check out Wayne Rash's blog.)
When evaluating a SAAS (software as a service) solution, smart shoppers will
push vendors to lay their cards on the table with regard to system availability,
customization and support. The chief technology officer of Intacct, a provider
of on-demand financial applications, suggests asking the following questions
when evaluating SAAS offerings.
Many emerging technologies have smoothly evolved from the consumer to the business space. But what of virtual worlds such as Second Life? Is there a business case for doing business in the virtual world? Following are some examples of potential workspaces in the metaverse.
By Dave Greenfield
The analysts over at Gartner recently said now is the time to cut the IT budget, and they provided six steps for getting the job done. The six steps play off advice offered by the company last fall that said CIOs should prepare two budgets: one that reflects the numbers handed down from company execs and another one held in reserve should the economy deteriorate. Well, it looks like the economy is deteriorating. Before you chop your budget without being asked, consider my six better budget-cutting tips.
By Eric Lundquist. Illustrated by Brian Moore.
In October 2006, Google quietly acquired hosted wiki provider JotSpot. Rumors abounded that the JotSpot assets had been devoured and that the team had been blown up and moved around Google. In November, Google Product Manager and former JotSpot Vice President Scott Johnston told a meeting of the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce in Michigan about a project called Google Sites, which would let users collaborate on projects. Today, meet Google Sites--the JotSpot wiki retooled and reincarnated as Google's wiki. Johnston told eWEEK that most of the foundation code in Sites is from JotSpot, but, as you can see in this slide show, he and his team have reworked the user interface to appear more Google-like.
By Clint Boulton
The Toshiba Portege's R500-S5003 is thin and light, but its solid-state drive does little to push performance.
By Tiffany Maleshefski
Several technologies are poised to shake up the data center. Gartner Research
Vice President Carl Claunch provided eWEEK with a list of 10 technologies to
watch. They are all relatively immature today, Claunch said, but will mature
enough for widespread use in the next 18 to 36 months. In many cases, he said, maturity
will occur only for a subset of each technology or for well-defined
applications, with full maturity for more general use lagging beyond the
three-year window.
The 10 technologies that follow should be considered in conjunction
with many proven, fully mature technologies, as well as others that did not
make this list but can also provide value for many companies.
Windows Live SkyDrive,
Microsoft's free online file management and sharing service, offers 5GB
of storage. Users get password-protected "anywhere access" to their
information, which can be shared with others. This anywhere, anytime
access to files is key to Microsoft's Windows Live vision--the powerful
integration between Web services and client software--going forward.
eWEEK Labs puts the newest version of Chandler, an open-source personal information manager, through its paces.
In honor of the 80th Annual Academy Awards, eWEEK presents its own version of the
Oscars--The eWEEK Technology in Film Awards.
Data center sprawl can be a massive headache, which is why IBM has created the 3-D Data Center application. The software—which provides a 3-D replica of servers and racks, as well as networking, power and cooling equipment—allows IT experts to use virtual reality technology to manage data center resources, regardless of where they are. Need to power down an IBM rack server in India from your office in California? No problem. Put your IT avatar in the application, find the right server with a couple of mouse clicks, and shut down that system. Read on for more details.
Since the ink dried on Microsoft's original $44.6 billion purchase offer for Yahoo on Jan. 31, Yahoo has been turning every which way for help, wheeling and dealing to avoid becoming the rival software giant's lunch. Here are some scenarios—some of which are rumors roiling in the media—that Yahoo and Microsoft could explore as they hurtle toward the hostile takeover stage.
With President's Day upon us in an election year, now might be a good time to reflect on what the next president of the United States should do about IT (regardless of who wins).
By Mike Vizard
In my story about managing virtualization, I recommend some ways that IT managers can tame existing server sprawl. This sprawl can be avoided altogether at companies just beginning or planning a server virtualization if the following steps are taken.
By Cameron Sturdevant
Yahoo's bachelorhood is coming to an end. We play
matchmaker, pointing our Cupid's arrows at potential suitors.
According to recent Gartner Group and Environmental Protection Agency reports,
the power demands of data centers in the United States have grown by five or
more times in the last seven years and are expected to double again by 2011. At
the moment, the EPA estimates that data centers account for 1.5 percent of all
the power used in the United States—roughly equal to all television use in the
nation and more than the entire state of Mississippi uses on a daily
basis.
It's also a fact that companies spend much more on power to run a
server during its lifetime than they do in capital expense to purchase
it. So it behooves enterprises large and small to be aware of these power
and cooling needs when building or refurbishing a data center.
Here are 10 characteristics of green data centers.
Here’s what we’re loving right now.
It's never easy to come up with a definitive list of IT professionals with the most influence on the way we secure desktops, networks and mobile devices. And limiting the list to 15 hackers is a near-impossible task, but, in my mind, these are the folks who stand out today as stirring the imagination and forcing us to rethink our approach to security in an always-on world.
The Zimbra AJAX Web client, which was released Feb. 5, now includes the Zimbra desktop, which allows users of existing POP and IMAP e-mail servers to collaborate and work both online and offline.
It was difficult to winnow down the list of top influencers at Microsoft. Here are some who are on the rise and poised to take one of the Top 25 positions in the future.
Printers, obviously, cost money, and so does printing, so it's only reasonable to try to cut costs. Unfortunately, the strategies that many offices use to keep costs down are actually counterproductive. Here are 10 things you may be doing to save money that could actually be costing money instead.
By M. David Stone
How much do cell phone undercounts really matter? Who gets their political pointers on MySpace? And which political candidate has supporters text in their contact info? Some of the answers may surprise you.
by Roy Mark
When evaluating a new laptop platform for your organization, keep the following criteria in mind.
By Tiffany Maleshefski
A tour through Windows Server 2008 shows the server operating system to be leaner and more secure than ever before.
Microsoft made waves when it announced it was offering $44.6 billion for Yahoo. A tempting offer if ever there was one, especially since it is much higher than Yahoo is valued at. But there are also some very good reasons why Yahoo should just say no.
By eWEEK Staff
Among Microsoft's 70,000-plus employees, there are many influential people. Twenty-five is too small a number to capture the best of the best among a large group of creative people. But Microsoft corporate culture also is very staid and insular, with a top-heavy power structure. Therefore, for this list, I focused more on operational influencers, although there are some thought leaders included.
By Joe Wilcox, Microsoft Watch
Some of the people on this list are little-known co-founders playing second banana to more famous names. Others have broken new ground or developed much-heralded technologies without winning much fame for themselves. You should know them, and, more importantly, you should know what they do.
By Michael Hickins
Social search. Unified Communications. Collaboration. Social networking. Demo 2008 is a hotbed for many new technologies. With 77 presenters in two days, the companies and their products can blur together. Here are 10 products that stood out—they're cool and have the potential for impact in their respective markets.
The Super Bowl has become known as much for the ads that debut during the games as for action on the field. The tech industry has had its share of “super” ads, some of which debuted during the Super Bowl and some of which could have. Here are my picks for the 10 most super tech ads.
By Debra Donston
eWEEK takes a look at the state of the database field and what DBAs can anticipate in 2008.
The U.S. economy appears to be hovering on the edge of a downturn. Unlike the downturn in 2001, however, this one will not be tech-driven, but rather the result—in large part—of the housing market crisis impacting the rest of the economy. This is little reassurance to IT professionals, many still bearing scars from the dot-com bust. And should the economy go into a full-blown recession, what IT skills will be at greatest risk? Will IT departments be leveled, as they were during the dot-com bust? eWEEK asked experts in the field to rate the security—and insecurity—of different facets of the IT department.
By Deb Perleman
eWEEK Labs visited Cisco's engineering labs in January for a first-hand look at the step-by-step process of converting two Catalyst 6500 switch chassis into one virtual chassis using the latest Virtual Switching Supervisor blade and Virtual Switching System 1440 software.
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Mozilla browser, the most successful open-source product created from a previous commercial product. For this anniversary, we're taking a look back at some of the key moments in Mozilla's history.
By Jim Rapoza
DCX provides high-speed, high-density server and storage networking. By Cameron Sturdevant
IBM Lotusphere 2008 is the setting for the introduction of new collaboration technologies, but it also affords IBM the opportunity to show off software from its research labs around the world. Here are 10 new technologies that have promise, but don't get too excited! Some of these products will get rolled into existing IBM offerings--or may never see the light of day at all.
By Clint Boulton
The buzz around green IT is growing increasingly louder, but what actions are companies really taking to go green?
IBM's ongoing successes are built largely on its global reach, which is reflected in the diversity of talent represented on this list. Here are the people who drive the IBM engine.
By Darryl K. Taft
As both lasers and inkjets improve, each encroaching on what was once the other’s strongest territory, the differences between the two types of printers are inevitably starting to blur. But there are still differences. Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the overlap.
By M. David Stone
As announced by Steve Jobs at MacWorld Expo, Apple's new iPhone firmware, 1.1.3, includes features such as location tracking for Google Maps, dashboard customization and multirecipient SMS capabilities. eWEEK Labs put the new features to the test.
After a history of acquisitions, BEA is itself acquired—by rival Oracle.
Apple's big announcement at this year's Macworld Expo is a
super-svelte notebook computer, the MacBook Air. Will the new notebook
fulfill our ultralight hopes and dreams?
(Photos courtesy of Apple)
By Jason Brooks
Likewise Enterprise and its open-source sibling, Likewise Open, enable administrators to extend the management embrace of Microsoft`s Active Directory and Group Policy to Linux, Macintosh and Unix clients and servers.
Looking to improve the way users access its applications on mobile devices, Google is using Macworld as the launching pad for new features that make accessing Google Apps on Apple's wildly popular smart phone faster and more fun.
By Clint Boulton
Microsoft's Office 2008 for Mac should prove a worthwhile upgrade for many companies.
At the International CES 2008 show in Las
Vegas, Senior Analyst Andrew Garcia took WiMax for a test
drive—literally.
The Office of Management and Budget has mandated that, starting Feb. 1, all federal agencies using Windows XP and Vista must adopt the standard security configurations developed by NIST, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as part of the Federal Desktop Core Configuration. But the FDCC also provides a good framework for ensuring secure civilian desktop and laptop configurations.
By Cameron Sturdevant
Amid the slew of products showcased at CES this year, several stood out for their potential in the enterprise.
By Scott Ferguson
eWEEK reviewed the technology statements and past actions of the major candidates. As 2008 dawns, here's where they stand on some of the major tech issues.
By Roy Mark
The day will surely come when there’s no choice in printers: There will be color and color. But today, it's worth taking a fresh look at the pros and cons of color and monochrome printers. The results may surprise you.
By M. David Stone
The announcement that the Netscape Web browser’s life was coming to an end brought few tears. This is mainly because very few people still use it. But while the browser itself is heading off into the sunset, it has left quite a legacy. Here are some of th
MySQL’s commercially available Enterprise Monitor provides a professional interface that lets administrators keep tabs on replication, memory usage and more than 80 other operational metrics.
By Cameron Sturdevant
Here are 12 things that IT managers should resolve to do in 2008, one for every month of the new year.
There are many ways IT professionals can stand out from the crowd in 2008.
eWEEK’s Clint Boulton makes his predictions about the search and collaboration technologies, products and events that will have the biggest impact on the enterprise in 2008.
Microsoft Watch Editor Joe Wilcox names the Microsoft stories of 2007 that will reverberate long into 2008.
eWEEK’s Deb Perelman makes her predictions about the technologies, products and events that will have the biggest impact on IT careers in 2008.
Paula Musich names the infrastructure stories whose impact this year will be felt into 2008.
There are some things that are presented and accepted as fact in IT but that have no connection to reality. Here are some of these IT “facts.”
By Wayne Rash
Illustrations by Brian Moore
Clint Boulton names the search and collaboration stories whose impact this year will be felt into 2008.
Chris Preimesberger names the virtualization and storage stories whose impact this year will be felt into 2008.
Roy Mark names the wireless stories whose impact this year will be felt into 2008.
Renee Boucher Ferguson names the enterprise apps stories whose impact this year will be felt into 2008.
Scott Ferguson names the hardware stories of the year that will have an impact well into 2008.
nCircle’s DP3000 is the firm's first step toward using device scanning for both vulnerability and compliance scanning in a single appliance. When paired with nCircle’s Configuration Compliance Manager 5.2, the DP3000 makes data collection a snap.
By
Each year, thousands of IT products are released, and each claims to offer enterprises something bigger, better or, our favorite, unique. eWeek Labs’ tests often show that these claims are overblown; just the same old technology dressed up in new buzzword
Twenty-five years ago, Adobe's founders thought they had a better idea concerning how to handle on-screen fonts: PostScript. Today, Adobe is one of the top-dogs in digital photography, with Photoshop; print publishing, with InDesign and Web publishing, wi
Business continuity is all about preparing for the worst. Here are some things you should know and do to keep your business going—no matter what.
By Wayne Rash
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System is designed to be easy for VARs to sell, deploy and manage, while providing customers with a rock-solid communications system from one of the most widely known and reputable sources of networking technology.
Here is eWEEK Labs’ annual list of the IT products, technologies and decisions that stood out for all the wrong reasons.
If there really are 12 days for receiving gifts, then this is what IT managers want this year.
By Michael Vizard
In a field evaluation of GPS devices, I found that each of the newest offerings from the biggest names in the market have something worth recommending. But each has its drawbacks. All of the devices I tested are simple to operate and attach relatively eas
With the release to testers of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1, the server operating system formerly known as Longhorn has moved one step closer to hitting its February 2008 release target. Based on eWEEK Labs' initial tests of RC 1, t
Results from a survey recently conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Editorial Research for eWEEK show a relatively high number of companies being affected by laptop losses and theft. At the same time, a relatively low percentage of companies are putting sec
Do you have a techie on your gift list? To find the right mix of products to recommend to our readers, we went right to those who should know: the gadget-loving writers and editors at eWEEK.
By Debra Donston
Users won't see Windows XP Service Pack 3 until 2008, but Microsoft has issued a release candidate of the update to Microsoft Software Development Network and TechNet subscribers. SP3 includes a rollup of the several hundred fixes that Microsoft has publi
The end of the year is traditionally a time for making predictions, so what better time to talk about technologies that will change printing? Most of the technologies covered here already exist in at least some printers, but they deserve to be widely copi
Symantec researchers predict the top 10 threats that will make the new year less than happy for IT managers.
By Brian Prince
IT managers have a lot of choices when it comes to outfitting their end users with notebook PCs. Rather than locking into one type of laptop for uniformity’s sake, however, why not ascertain a department’s or employees’ specific needs and build from there
Printing isn't just about those big hulking beasts sitting in your office. When the time comes for holiday gift giving, don't forget the joy of printing--and scanning, too. Just about anyone would be thrilled to receive a printer that outputs high-quali
Between marketers and malware, spam has some powerful perpetrators. Technologies such as fast-flux DNS, which uses a large number of servers and quick-changing domain records, have created botnets with spamming zombies that are hard to take down. In fact,
The Stratus ftServer 6200 is designed for fault-tolerant operations and for support by a remote manager. The server communicates frequently with an organization’s IT staff and Stratus technical support, providing immediate feedback if something is amiss.
From the Apple iPhone's global appeal to Palm's new marketing focus, vendors and mobile operators alike are pushing smart phones toward wider adoption. For enterprises, e-mail may still be the smart phone's killer application, but the ways these devices c
The high-performance workstation combines economy, flexibility and speed in an attractive package.
By Frank J. Ohlhorst
Attackers in 2007 turned their attention from technical issues and problems to far easier prey: human beings. Spear-phishing exploits have targeted rich victims and military and government targets in nation-state espionage, as well as C-level executives f
OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and Fedora are three of the most popular and innovative Linux distributions available. But do their latest versions—OpenSUSE 10.3, Ubuntu 7.10 and Fedora 8—and the enterprise Linux distributions they foreshadow deserve a spot on your orga
If you’re not on the VOIP (voice over IP) bandwagon yet, you’re likely planning to jump on soon. With Microsoft’s entry into the space last year, VOIP has gotten more attention than ever before. Both large and small companies alike are
Here are some hard-won lessons learned from those who have implemented wikis at their organizations.
Blogging has become something of a rite of passage for employees at corporations all over the world. From C-level executives to knowledge workers, people have put their digital pens to the screen to discuss business affairs, corporate strategies or what a
According to the National Retail Federation’s 2007 Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, consumers plan to do more than 30 percent of their holiday shopping online. Here are some of the Grinches you may run into—and some tips on avoiding them.
Some folks in the blogosphere are saying Google could make a run at partner Sprint after the No. 3. U.S. phone carrier quashed its wireless network deal with Clearwire. Here are some reasons why Google--which is riding high on the strength of its robust o
During this time for giving thanks, here are 10 things IT professionals should be grateful for.
By Michael Vizard
Storage virtualization is one of today’s most talked-about technologies, but it’s not a cure-all. Here are some things it can—and cannot—do.
By Chris Preimesberger
Google’s OpenSocial platform has caused quite a stir in the IT world. Here is a list of eight applications we’d like to see built with the OpenSocial APIs. (Who said applications have to be productive, anyway?)
With Citrix's recent XenSource acquisition, a new hypervisor on the way from Microsoft and Oracle now extending its sincere Red Hat flattery to the virtual world, the buzz around server virtualization is louder than ever. Here are 10 things to keep in min
In November 2006, Intel introduced the first quad-core microprocessors for the volume x86 market. The quad-core chips were designed to offer better performance compared with the previous generation of single- and dual-core processors. A little less than a
It's OK to think of Google as the godfather of mashups—the company gets credit for a lot these days. Perhaps the bigger story is that more and more businesses are thinking about the potential of mashups. Following are 10 things you should know about
The Catalyst 6500 Virtual Switching System 1440 allows two switches to appear as one, reducing management burden and adding resiliency.
Will Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008, code-named Orcas, make a splash when it is released early next year? Check out this eWEEK Labs Walk-Through for an early look at Microsoft’s forthcoming integrated development environment revision.
Adaptec’s Snap Server 730i is designed for easy implementation in enterprises that don’t have a big IT staff. The Snap Server 730i’s setup and configuration wizards are easy to use, the server will fit easily into an office or data center environment, and
Right now, one of the hottest trends in storage is iSCSI appliances. Companies are in a rush to announce new products, roll out iSCSI versions of older products or introduce products that somehow work with iSCSI even if they don't actual
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